The oldest known Holocaust survivor, and celebrated pianist Alice Herz Sommer, has died at 110. In 2010 she gave this moving interview to The Times revealing how music kept her alive then — and now

Alice Herz Sommer is not having a party — “There have been so many,” she says
— but she will take congratulatory phone calls from around the world.
Otherwise, she will stick to her routine: two hours at the piano in the
morning, a gentle walk along the corridor, reading in 20-minute spells as
her eyes can’t manage more, and in the late afternoon a game of Scrabble
with a friend: “I always say conversation is enhanced when you are playing
Scrabble.”

Alice is almost certainly the world’s oldest survivor of the Jewish Holocaust.
As a child in Prague, she went swimming